04/25/17 – Health Issues in Asylum Seekers

In this USC Immigrant Health Initiative seminar, Cynthia Willard, medical director for the Program for Torture Victims in Los Angeles, will discuss health issues asylum seekers face. An assistant clinical professor at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, she is developing an asylum medicine program in the Department of Family Medicine, drawing upon her decade-long experience practicing medicine with a focus on immigrant health and human rights in underserved communities. She has worked overseas in Albania, Kosovo, Liberia and Kenya and founded the Utah Health & Human Rights Project, a torture rehabilitation program, in Salt Lake City.

This seminar is hosted by the Immigrant Health Initiative, in collaboration with the USC Center for Health Equity in the Americas and the USC Institute for Global Health.

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

12:00-1:00pm

Tutor Campus Center (TCC) Room 350/351

USC University

Lunch will be provided

Please RSVP: globalhealth.usc.edu/health-issues-asylum

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